Illustrator CS3 features and Xara

[georgetroy]

I just got this upgrade in the mail today. In the box is the discs, some ads and this chincy little start up guide. For $199.00 you would think Adobe would include a manual like you get with out an upgrade. I don't why I spend my money on upgrades whether it be Xara Xtreme, Adobe, MS, Corel, Serif, Painter or what ever else I forgot. Spending my retirement money before the kids get it and they don't need it.

Question I wonder if I should remove CS2 before I load CS3 Upgrade or afterwards?

Someone was making a remark before the thread got moved to here about MS Expression Suite being $500.00. I do use the old Expression 3.3 a lot. It has the best smart curve or b-spline tool around. GT

As I said today I got the new upgrade now it won't install. This is a thread I placed in the Illustrator forum.

I don't need this problem. Got my new upgrade today. Got this message.

E:Adobe CS3\Setup.exe is not a valid Win. 32 application. Ok, it either installs without a hassle or it goes back to Amazon immediately for a refund and it will never darken my computer again. I will call tomorrow Adobe about it tomorrow. GT

[Soquili]

George check the root of the CD for an autorun.exe, setup.exe or any file with a .msi extension. Sometimes a preloader is required to load the setup.exe files from subfolders.

[Albacore]

We have a few try out copies at work and I have used CS3 for about 5hrs the other week. Since all our work iis for print I enjoyed using the new "Live Colour" tool for preparing recently produced work for a book cover to be sent to the print section and it was so easy to set up spot colour colours and reduce the number of colours used. To answer Xhris statement that it was like using "named colours" in Xara is being unfair, it is far more sophisticated than that as you can so quickly change your colour palette from the drop down menus. As some of our work goes into both colour production and into greyscale for newspapers this was so,so easy and it has cutout another process that we had to go through. I had a quick try at the eraser tool and I can say that it works well and it would be a great tool to use if you wanted a complex shape but you only generated it from a simple shape.

If the upgrade was the same price as it is in the States I would upgrade but as the price is the same over here as you pay in $ (current Exchange is $2.03) and then we have to pay an extra 17.5% on top of that in VAT (Gov. Tax) it takes a lot of freelance work to pay for that, so no thank you.

[Xhris]

To answer Xhris statement that it was like using "named colours" in Xara is being unfair...

You're right actually on further inspection. While you can link colours together in Xara so they have a common saturation or value, you can't perform the hue-linked changes without limiting to primary colours like R/G/B. AI actually goes one step further and allows complete control over fixed hue relations and displays in a WYSIWYG fashion what those relations are.